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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-06-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Personal Explanation</name>
    <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000015">
      <heading>Personal Explanation</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Automotive Workers in Transition Program</name>
      <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000016">
        <heading>Automotive Workers in Transition Program</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation</electorate>
        <startTime time="2015-06-17T14:19:23" />
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000017">
          <timeStamp time="2015-06-17T14:19:23" />
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (14:19):</by>  I seek leave to make a personal explanation in relation to a statement I made on 5 May and following a question from the Hon. Andrew McLachlan yesterday.</text>
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000018">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000019">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink:</by>  He caught you out.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="speech" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000020">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  He is very good. On advice from the department, I made the statement in relation to the Automotive Workers in Transition Program that:</text>
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000021">
          <inserted>Training can be accessed through 15 pre-approved registered training organisations that have been identified through a comprehensive selection process.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000022">I can inform the chamber that this was incorrect advice: training can be accessed through any training provider. There are, however, 15 organisations that are able to provide skills recognition advice to workers through the program.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000023">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Does the Hon. Mr McLachlan accept his explanation?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4866">
        <name>The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20150617e602e8e72b8b414280000024">
          <by role="member" id="4866">The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN:</by>  Yes, sir, and I thank the minister for it.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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